Since we have a preliminary list of attendees for our 70th, including new and old faces, a little background information for both may be helpful cognition. After their earlier years at Harvard, doctors Cathy and Sam Katz were faculty pediatricians at Duke for 43 years. Cathy worked to eliminate the transmission of HIV from millions of infected mothers in Africa to their newborns. Sam’s work was principally with vaccines. Both have received international honors. Nan and Mort Smith have lived in the Sugar Hill Retirement Community just nine miles north of their summer home on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, where their three sibling families, now including five great-grandchildren, get together. Nan and Mort love to travel and last year took two American Queen paddle-wheel cruises, following the Lewis and Clark trail up the Columbia River to Washington and on the Mississippi from New Orleans to Memphis, Tennessee. Dorothy and Dick Dahl are bringing their son, daughter in-law, and two children to join us and look over the College. Dick has had a sacrum problem, but is improving and walking with a cane. He was our class photographer and wrote the newsletter for many years. Warren (married to “Dot”) Daniel,who as head agent writes all the thoughtful and courteous solicitations and acknowledgments, is recovering well from a hip replacement. Our president and general factotum Bud Munson is now our only active alumnus living in the Hanover area and should be treated with tender, loving care. After all, he spent most of his working life for us in the CIA and other government agencies. Pete (Ann) Foster,whom I’ll discuss in my next notes, spent his working career with the Bell System and was an avid flyer, holding a commercial license for land and sea planes. Bob Eckerson’swife, Arlene, died two years ago, and his daughter, Lynn, is accompanying him to our reunion. She is a physical therapist, and Bob stays active going to a fitness center “using all of the equipment” three days a week and swimming two days.

Dr. John (Barbara) Price is still a practicing psychologist, seeing patients two days a week. He says that he plays tennis on the other five days. John also is an enthusiastic gardener, hybridizing and raising his own types of daylilies. Your secretary, Dave (Joyce) Kurr, acquired and ran a specialty packaging company for his last 12 working years. We enjoy golfing, walking, and our view into the woods adjacent to Hamilton College. Nine widows plan to join the reunion, including Pat McAllister, who is a member of the executive committee and runs our widows program, and Judy Cross, who was John Hatheway’s companion for a number of years.

—Dave Kurr, 4281 Indian Field Road, Clinton, NY 13323; (315) 853-3582; djkurr@verizon.net